By Mena and Dave Sprague

by Koen De Smet, MD; Alessandro Calistri, MD
AMC Ghent, Krijgslaan 181, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
published on: http://www.surfacehippy.info/acousticphenomenahr.php

Background: While providing superior hardness and improved wear characteristics, hard bearings such as metal-on-metal, or ceramic-on-ceramics bearings have different lubrication properties than hard on soft (metal- or ceramic-on-poly) bearing couples. A failure in this lubrication mechanism in metal-on-metal resurfacing prostheses can lead to squeaking and has been reported by different authors. Other more frequently encountered acoustic phenomena in resurfacing are clicking, popping or grinding noises that patients may experience in different episodes of their prosthesis life.

A word of explanation here by Liz Smith – Peggy Siegal keeps New York, L.A., Cannes, the Hamptons  and places elsewhere au courant with what’s what at the movies. She arranges screenings for everybody and brings out the VIPs in abundance. She knows everyone who is anyone and a few who aren’t. She is a most delightful and adorable person, always on her BlackBerry, arranging parties that will do somebody some good, and on top of this she is an authority on matters of beauty, health and staying young. Let me add, she is also one of the best-dressed young career women I have ever met. Here’s her holiday missive from Europe!

Published in: wowOwow.com, 29-12-2008

The appointment of qualifications ad Honorem is not a usual practice for the International Makotokai Federation but for special events we are happy to make an exception. The Dr. Koen De Smet is one of the best surgeons in the world in the orthopedic hips and knees specialty.

Dr. Lawrence Dorr, a nationally known orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, realized last year that something was very wrong with some of his patients. Months after routine hip replacements, patients who had expected to live without pain were in agony. “The pain was grabbing me around the back,” said Stephen Csengeri, who is 54, and a lawyer from Torrance, Calif.

US patients, like Keith Williams, go overseas to get hip resurfacing surgery. More and more insurance companies are even willing to pay for it. Keith went to AMC-Gent for surgery.
By Dawn Fratangelo & Brian Williams of NBC Universal, May, 2007.

Keith McDonald underwent hip resurfacing surgery, a newer alternative to total hip replacement.
By Barnaby Feder & Erik Olsen of The New York Times, April 15, 2007.

The appointment of qualifications ad Honorem is not a usual practice for the International Makotokai Federation but for special events we are happy to make an exception. The Dr. Koen De Smet is one of the best surgeons in the world in the orthopedic hips and knees specialty.

More Than 30 People From Around Here Have Had An Alternative Kind Of Hip Replacement, And Recipients Talk Glowingly About It.

Lynn Beyler headed overseas to Belgium for a new procedure called hip resurfacing.
on NBC15-News on Feb. 3th, 2006.

NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence), a British governmental authority for assessment of treatment methods, recommended the modern metal on metal resurfacing operation for young patients with " advanced hip disease".

The Katz’s report (see August 2002 News: Preferred hospital for your total hip) on the relation between the operation volume of an individual surgeon and the results of his /her total hip operations evoked a debate.